Conation
//kəʊˈneɪ.ʃən// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. countable, uncountable
"Any pleasing sense-experience, when it has once taken place, will, on subsequent occasions, give rise to a conation, when its conditions are only partially repeated..."
Example
More examples"Any pleasing sense-experience, when it has once taken place, will, on subsequent occasions, give rise to a conation, when its conditions are only partially repeated..."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cōnātiō (“an act of attempting”).
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